Ahmed Ghailani

Ahmed Ghailani (1970-) was a member of al-Qaeda from Tanzania. He was one of the planners of the 1998 US embassy bombings.

Biography
Ahmed Ghailani was born in 1970 on the island of Zanzibar in Tanzania, and he was originally a traveling preacher of Islam. He became an explosives expert in al-Qaeda, a Salafi terrorist group. He was one of the men responsible for the 1998 US embassy bombings, obtaining the bomb components in Dar-es-Salaam that were used to blow up the United States embassy there. Ghailani flew to Karachi, Pakistan before the bombs blew up, returning to al-Qaeda's sanctuary of Afghanistan and marrying an Uzbek woman. On 25 July 2004 he was captured by Pakistani security forces, and he was sentenced to life in prison by America.